Police: Family of 5 shot to death at Virginia home

Posted: August 4, 2014 - 8:41am

CULPEPER, Va. (AP) — Police say a family of five, including 3 children, has been found shot to death at a home in Virginia.

Detective Angela Deavers with the Culpeper County Sheriff's Office says the victims were two adults, both 35 years old, and three children. Deavers says a family member discovered the bodies inside a house just outside Culpeper, a town of about 15,000 people 70 miles southwest of Washington.

Deavers says two of the children killed were elementary-school-aged, and the third was middle school-aged. She says she does not have other details.

Deavers says deputies arrived at the scene around 10 p.m. Sunday, after the relative found the bodies.